Team
Dr. Rohit Swarup
Chairman & Managing Director
He has more than 25 years and has made significant contributions in the field of education to several state governments in India, the private & public sector enterprises in USA, Australia, China, and Sri Lanka. His interest in Design led him to pursue a Ph.D. in Design Pedagogy for K12 and Higher Education.
Dr. Piyush Kumar Sinha
Director, Advisory and Research, CRI
He has 37 years of experience as an advisor, researcher, and trainer in marketing, sales, retailing, services, and business strategy for product and service firms in the areas of retailing and e-commerce, luxury and lifestyle, healthcare, decision sciences, and IT. Up until March 2018, he served as a marketing professor at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) in India. He taught at IIM Bangalore, XIMB, and MICA before joining IIMA.
Mr. Ninad Shastri
Founder & Director
He is the Founder and Director of Explorra School of Design & Technology His expertise lies in Digital Media Design, Education Ecosystem & Entrepreneurship. He works on the creation and consulting of cutting-edge interactive educational content.
Mr. Subhash Tendle
Academic Director
He is an Advertising and Design aficionado with more than 35 years of experience. He was responsible for creating the famous mascot, ‘Goody’ the tiger, for Nerolac Paints.After retiring from FCB-Ulka, He joined MICA as an associate Professor in 2001. In 2006, He became a Professor and Director of ‘Crafting Creative Communication’ (CCC), a specially designed course for budding art directors, copywriters, and ad-film makers. He continued as the Course Director till 2015.
Dr. Hemant C Trivedi
He has more than 35 years of experience working in a variety of industries, and his specialties include academic administration, management consulting, and the development of new technologies.When it comes to managing academics, he is an expert.. His academic career spanned more than 25 years and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table along with a strong analytical attitude.
Mr. Vijai Singh Katiyar
He has more than 29 years of expertise in design teaching, research, and practice. He is currently the Principal Designer at NID. At NID, he created and launched the country’s first practice-based Ph.D. programme in design in 2016. His works include essays, speeches, and two important books: Indian Saris: Traditions, Perspectives, Design, and Design Education: Tradition and Modernity.
Dr. Gayatri Menon
She is a creative genius with a serious knack for Design Thinking. She has over 20 years of expertise in design methodologies, design thinking, systems thinking and approach, creativity, play and learning, research methodologies, visual basics, design for social problems, design for special needs, etc.
Mr. S Ram Kumar
He has more than 35 years of experience in teaching and corporate training. He is been teaching at 25+ business schools including SP Jain, IIMs, Nirma, XLRI,and ISB. He has published two books on Natural History of IIM Ahmedabad and the Gujarat University.
Mr. Sekhar Mukherjee
He is the Director of National Institute of Design, Vijayawada. He has more than 20 years of experience in Comics, Cartoon, Computer Animation, Graphics, Traditional Animation, Film, and Animation. He is also the Festival director of an iconic international student animation festival named Chitrakatha. Another feather in his cap is that he is Editorial Member of Longform Graphic Narrative anthology, India & 123 Animation-An Interdisciplinary Journal, UK.
Mr. Martin Perlmutter
With more than 50 years of experience in interactive media, he is the Thinker, Organizer, and Practical Visionary. He had previously held academic positions at Cogswell College, MIT, NYU, San Francisco State, and Mass College of Art. Over the course of a half-century, he has created ground-breaking math and science learning software. He provides advice on the use of new media and broadband technology to Harvard, MIT, IBM, AT&T, Xerox, AOL, Looksmart, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Prof. Isabel Herguera
She has directed famous film- SULTANA’S DREAM along with numerous short films, including La Gallina Ciega (2005), már (2010), Bajo la Almohada (2012), Amore d’inverno (2015), and Kutxa Beltza (2016), were directed and produced by her. Her films have been widely screened at festivals and locations all over the world and have received more than fifty international honours, including a nomination for a Goya Award in 2006.
Mr. Leland M Hayes
He has worked in the education domain for design, entertainment, gaming, marketing research, strategic management, non-profit fundraising, and has operated his own consulting company for 30 years. He was previous Executive Director and Chairman of one of the largest charitable gaming facilities in Canada, he negotiated and administered pilot projects to gain approval of new electronic gaming equipment in the Province of Ontario.